Local authorities; adoption of ordinances; erection of signs;
department of transportation; weight restrictions
Sec. 3. (a) This subsection does not apply to any highway or street
in the state highway system. Except as provided in subsection (e),
local authorities, with respect to highways under their jurisdiction,
may by ordinance:
(1) prohibit the operation of vehicles upon any highway; or
(2) impose restrictions as to the weight of vehicles to be
operated upon any highway;
for a total period not to exceed ninety (90) days in any one (1) year,
whenever any highway by reason of deterioration, rain, snow, or
other climatic conditions will be seriously damaged or destroyed
without the regulation of vehicles.
(b) A local authority adopting an ordinance under subsection (a)
shall erect or cause to be erected and maintained signs specifying the
terms of the ordinance at each end of that part of any highway
affected by the ordinance and at intersecting highways. The
ordinance may not be enforced until the signs are erected and
maintained.
(c) Except as provided in subsection (e), local authorities with
respect to highways under their jurisdiction, except highways in the
state highway system and state maintained routes through cities and
towns, may by ordinance do the following:
(1) Prohibit the operation of trucks or other commercial
vehicles.
(2) Impose limitations as to the weight, size, or use of those
vehicles on designated highways.
The prohibitions and limitations must be designated by appropriate
signs placed on the highways.
(d) The Indiana department of transportation has the same
authority granted to local authorities in subsections (a) and (c) to
determine by executive order and to impose restrictions as to weight,
size, and use of vehicles operated upon a highway in the state
highway system, including state maintained routes through cities and
towns. These restrictions may not be enforced until signs giving
notice of the restrictions are erected upon the highway or part of the
highway affected by the order.
(e) A local authority may not, in an ordinance passed under
subsection (a) or (c), prohibit the operation of buses that are not more
than forty-five (45) feet in length on any segment of the primary
system (as defined in IC 8-23-1-33) that was in existence on June 1,
1991.
As added by P.L.2-1991, SEC.8. Amended by P.L.100-1991, SEC.1;
P.L.122-1993, SEC.1.
Last modified: May 27, 2006